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Trump Ordered to Pay $355 Million and Barred From New York Business
A New York judge on Friday handed Donald J. Trump a crushing defeat in his civil fraud case‚ finding the former president liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordering him to pay a penalty of $355 million that could wipe out his entire stockpile of cash.
The decision by Justice Arthur F. Engoron caps a chaotic‚ yearslong case in which New York’s attorney general put Mr. Trump’s fantastical claims of wealth on trial. With no jury‚ the power was in Justice Engoron’s hands...